Nisa Khan

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Jun 1Failed to save articlePlease try again (Illustration by Anna Vignet)In researching her new book, Berkeley resident Nicole Wong interviewed her parents while playing games of Mahjong with them. “I want to go on the record and say there must have been a time that I’ve beaten them,” Wong said. Her website, The Mahjong Project, which shares a name with her book, originally set out to document the rules that her family played by.

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Written by Dr Nisa Khan on May 27, 2025. Posted in Current News There is no other way either science or mathematics can be right, valid, and useful comprehensively if we do not change our current dogma in physics, engineering, and mathematics that merrily claims that the sine function is a wave, and light and radiation of any kind is some electromagnetic wave in any or all media.

3 weeks ago | kqed.org | Nisa Khan |Mina Kim

May 17Failed to save articlePlease try againA Canadian WestJet Airlines Boeing 737 passenger aircraft taxis at Denver International Airport in Denver, Colorado, on June 20, 2019. WestJet recently announced it was suspending nine routes to U.S. cities due to low demand as Canadians avoid traveling to the U.S. (Robert Alexander/Getty Images)“I love your state so much (and the fact it’s blue),” another social media post read.

3 weeks ago | kqed.org | Nisa Khan

May 10Failed to save articlePlease try againCollection of old Turkish family photographs from 1930–1970s. (Getty Images Plus)SFPL recently held a workshop on safeguarding your family’s archives to mark Preservation Week: a national initiative from the American Library Association that’s chaired this year by Bay Area librarian Mychal Threets.

1 month ago | kqed.org | Nisa Khan

May 7Failed to save articlePlease try again‘Conclave’ stan accounts like Pope Crave are positioned to cover, and appreciate, the current conclave via approaches mostly foreign to major media outlets. ‘You can't ignore the fact that Catholicism has a baller aesthetic,’ says the account's admin.  (Pope Crave)In Vatican City, the first day of the conclave – during which over a hundred cardinals gather to elect the next leader of the Catholic Church – is winding down.